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2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)
It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...
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Contradanza: Chucho Valdes and the Afro-Cuban Messengers play the Jorgensen Center in Storrs on Jan. 27-28
![<span style="font-size: medium;">Afro-Cuban music enjoys an evolutionary advantage over the rest of the jazz world. Like other points on the spectrum, it changes and grows over time, gaining in harmonic and formal complexity as it expands to incorporate a wide range of contemporary American jazz and popular music influences. Periodically, it weathers sea changes and submits to a back-to-basics overhaul. No matter how cerebral it gets, however, Afro-Cuban music never seems to break its ties to the body.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/168241380-23080109.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\">Afro-Cuban music enjoys an evolutionary advantage over the rest of the jazz world. Like other points on the spectrum, it changes and grows over time, gaining in harmonic and formal complexity as it expands to incorporate a wide range of contemporary American jazz and popular music influences. Periodically, it weathers sea changes and submits to a back-to-basics overhaul. No matter how cerebral it gets, however, Afro-Cuban music never seems to break its ties to the body.</span>")
Afro-Cuban music enjoys an evolutionary advantage over the rest of the jazz world. Like other points on the spectrum, it changes and grows over time, gaining in harmonic and formal complexity as it expands to incorporate a wide range of contemporary...Tags: Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, Music, Jazz (genre), Cuba, Popular Music (genre)
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Spyo Gyra at Berks Jazz Fest: A fusion classic that's still smokin' hot
Lehigh Valley MusicSpyro Gyra is a jazz fusion group known for complicated rhythms and sounds born from so many different influences that it might be tempting to pass on them as too highbrow for the average music consumer. But its music is melodic and each member of the... -
Jazz-classical fusion a work in progress
![Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is "America's classical music." But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you'll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western world calls "classical music" — the idiom that gave you Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, etc. The reverse is also true — classical musicians who want to get down with the jazz folk, to learn their freewheeling ways or merely steal a few licks and vamps for their own purposes.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-01/58773349-15124951.jpg "Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is "America's classical music.\" But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you'll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western world calls \"classical music\" — the idiom that gave you Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, etc. The reverse is also true — classical musicians who want to get down with the jazz folk, to learn their freewheeling ways or merely steal a few licks and vamps for their own purposes.")
Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is "America's classical music." But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you'll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western world calls "classical music" — the idiom that...Tags: Walt Disney, Dave Brubeck, Redman, Lang Lang, Jazz (genre)
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Culture Watch: What's new in music, DVDs, books and magazines
Culture MonsterBooks: “Innerviews: Music Without Borders” by Anil Prasad. Editor and publisher of the Web’s longest-running music magazine, Prasad collects his frank and often freewheeling interviews with a wide array of musicians: Joe Zawinul, Chris Whitley and... -
2010 Year End -- Jazz
Culture MonsterAlthough in recent years jazz could seem mired in defensive talk about the music's health or its makeup, 2010 felt different somehow. Whether it was the often sumptuous, jazz-drunk taste of New Orleans offered by David Simon & Co. in...... -
Tigran Hamasyan's global view of jazz
Culture MonsterGiven how Tigran Hamasyan’s career began, it might have been more surprising to learn the 23-year-old pianist didn’t one day sign to a major label. With his fourth album, "A Fable," due next month (his first for Universal France) the...... -
Familiar names dot Grammy jazz categories
Pop & HissThe late keyboardist Joe Zawinul takes the contemporary prize, with Chick Corea and John McLaughlin getting the instrumental award. But singer Kurt Elling wins his first Grammy. In a year when the nominees in jazz featured a welcome number of...... -
Requiem: 2007 passings of note
Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...Tags: San Diego Chargers, University of California, Genes and Chromosomes, Poetry, Basketball
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The 50th Annual Grammy Winners List
Album of the Year: "River: The Joni Letters," Herbie Hancock. Record of the Year: "Rehab," Amy Winehouse. Song of the Year: "Rehab," Amy Winehouse (Amy Winehouse). New Artist: Amy Winehouse. Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Mark Ronson. Pop Vocal...Tags: Ne-Yo, Keith Urban, Mary J. Blige, Mass Media, Steve Earle
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A full scale, from prime choices to mismatched entries
Typically, the jazz nominations for the 45th Grammy Awards are a mix of prime choices, vaguely defined categories and entries that belong elsewhere. On the prime side, there is the classy best jazz instrumental album lineup. It's hard to go wrong with...Tags: Diana Krall, Tommy Flanagan, Big Band (genre), Blues (genre), Natalie Cole
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